Yeah I lost the disks I had with the C64 when I let a friend borrow it and he never returned it and moved away from our neighborhood. But programming the Commo

Yeah I lost the disks I had with the C64 when I let a friend borrow it and he never returned it and moved away from our neighborhood. But programming the Commodore 64 was a challenge because BASIC on it was primitive and older than some of the others out there like the Atari 8 bit series. I learned what peek and poke accessed parts of the C64 memory you needed to know what they did to write video games and control sprites. If you wanted to write code that changes the data statements you had to know what area of memory it used and use poke to put it there. In a way I guess you are right that it was self modifying code in that it changed the data statement. I'm sure other people did that as well. When all you have is a Commodore 64 before the Internet, best you could do is read magazines like Compute!s Gazette and get on BBS systems and talk to other programmers to get ideas and share tricks we learned. The Commodore 64 was like the Raspberry PI of the 1980s, it was cheap and it worked. I might buy a Raspberry PI some day.